Timescales in the quench dynamics of many-body quantum systems: Participation ratio vs out-of-time ordered correlator

Abstract

We study quench dynamics in the many-body Hilbert space using two isolated systems with a finite number of interacting particles: a paradigmatic model of randomly interacting bosons and a dynamical (clean) model of interacting spins-$1/2$. For both systems in the region of strong quantum chaos, the number of components of the evolving wave function, defined through the number of principal components $N_{pc}$ (or participation ratio), was recently found to increase exponentially fast in time [Phys. Rev. E 99, 010101R (2019)]. Here, we ask whether the out-of-time ordered correlator (OTOC), which is nowadays widely used to quantify instability in quantum systems, can manifest analogous time-dependence. We show that $N_{pc}$ can be formally expressed as the inverse of the sum of all OTOC's for projection operators. While none of the individual projection-OTOC's shows an exponential behavior, their sum decreases exponentially fast in time. The comparison between the behavior of the OTOC with that of the $N_{pc}$ helps us better understand wave packet dynamics in the many-body Hilbert space, in close connection with the problems of thermalization and information scrambling.

11 pages, 7 figures

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